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Psychokinesis (2018)
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Mykel Banda and Roach Montono of the Bad Potatoes Pod join Perry to discuss the Korean superhero film, Psychokinesis. Train to Busan's Yeon Sang-ho also directs this fun film, about a deadbeat dad who gains telekinetic powers and uses them to try and repair his relationship with his daughter.
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PARAGONS OF EARTH is a comic book project I’m developing with Thomas Deja and Eric Johns. You can support the project by visiting crowdfundr.com/paragonscomic.
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Paragons of Earth' Comic
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Hey guys, before we get into the episode, I wanted to tell you a little bit about Paragons of Earth, the exciting new superhero comic I'm working on with Thomas DJ and Eric Johns. For this comic, we've unearthed a number of obscure and forgotten Golden Age superheroes, plucked them from the depths of the public domain, and completely redesigned and reinvented them for the modern day. It's an exciting cast of characters, and we're throwing them up against the threat of a Lovecraftian apocalypse.
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It's got action, it's got drama, it's got alternate dimensions and alien worlds, and it's even got a giant shark and Hawaiian shirt. What else could you want? But in order to make this comic a reality, we need your help. The comic is crowdfunding now, and you can help support it by going to crowdfunder.com slash paragonscomic.
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That's Crowdfunder Without the E dot com slash Paragons Comic. You'll be able to find that link in the show notes, so please double check if you didn't quite get it. Please help make this comic a reality. We are counting on
Transition to Podcast Episode
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your support. And now, on with the show.
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I don't know what's going on here. I don't know what's going on.
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Is it Rumiya? Rumiya?
Introduction of Guests: Michael and Roy
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Speaker
Welcome to the Superhero Cinephiles Podcast. I'm your host, Perry Constantine, and welcoming two new guests today, and that is Michael and Roy. Guys, how you doing today? Good, how are you? Doing pretty good. So why don't you talk a little bit about yourselves? Michael, let's start with you. Okay, well, a lot of it's going to be similar to Roy, because we actually grew up together.
00:02:47
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But we're both from Oregon and we both have a movie podcast of our own. So I thought being a guest on yours with superhero movie would be a perfect fitting. And that podcast is a bad potatoes pod. It's a play on Rotten Tomatoes, but we're couch potatoes.
00:03:05
Speaker
Yes. So we cover movies and it's any type of movie. We take suggestions. We will do never seen. So like movies that none of us has seen. Or if a movie that we really want the other person to see, we have to watch it. So if I want him to see a movie that he just hasn't, then I'll pick the movie as a movie.
Guests' Superhero Origins and Love for Comics
00:03:29
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Yeah. We had a third guest that was just against foreign movies.
00:03:36
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I was like, well, you gotta, you know, you have to watch this. So yeah, there's no turning back because it's in my pick. And just a question. My audio lines aren't picking up on the bottom.
00:03:53
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Yeah, I grew up loving, I guess Batman was my first love. I had these Batman boots, winter boots. I wore it through the summer. I wore them until they rotted off. I wore them to church. My grandma, there's pictures of me dressed up all super nice with a little tie on, but the Batman boots stayed on. And then it slowly transitioned to Spider-Man.
00:04:21
Speaker
Uh, and, uh, something else. I got a carpet Corp on Instagram. I create custom nerdy carpets, uh, tucked in carpets. They are pretty cool. I do, uh, 64 Spider-Man, Venom, Akira, Akatsuki, some anime stuff in there. Very cool. Awesome. Uh, Roy, how about you? Anything else to add to any of that?
00:04:48
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No, I mean, my name's Roy. I'm from Oregon. Michael and I have known each other since we were young. I love superheroes. That was kind of our similarities, though. We both like nerd stuff. I grew up watching the animated series because I was born in the 90s, so perfect timing for that stuff, which I'm so stoked about, the X-Men 97 coming out soon. Yes, yeah, definitely.
00:05:18
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Hope they have that banger intro still. Oh, I think they're definitely gonna have it I mean given how many times they've used it so far in the MCU I don't see any reason why they would not go back to it Yeah, you kind of have to know they're kind of like guys bullied themselves into it Mm-hmm. Yeah, but it's I think it'll be they might change like the instrumental of it in some small way kind of like they did with The spider-man theme on homecoming which would be interesting to see what they do with that Okay, so
00:05:47
Speaker
So you both got interested in, you know, Roy, you said you got in through the X-Men and Michael, you said Batman was kind of your first love. Was it just those those boots that got you into Batman first or did you get in through like a movie or TV show or anything like that? If Phantasm got me into it. And after I watched that, I was obsessed. I still maintain that. I maintain that is the best Batman movie ever made.
00:06:15
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I think so too, actually. I mean, it's been a long time since I've rewatched it, but what's in my memory still holds up to it being the best. I think I love that movie so much because of the Joker. I like his villain arc in that movie. I don't know. It was really cool. I just recently rewatched it, honestly. Yeah, that's good. We did an episode on it, I think like a few years ago now, and it was funny because
00:06:44
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both me and the guests, we couldn't really have much to say about it just because it's like, yeah, this is awesome, isn't it? And that was about it. Cool. Yeah. Cool. All right. Freaking sick. Nothing wrong with it. Yeah, there was there was nothing really to criticize. Just so it was tough to it was tough to kind of find stuff to talk about with it. So did you guys branch out into comics at all? Or do you stick with kind of like movies and TV shows with superhero stuff?
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I did branch out to comics. But when I got my comics from my uncle, which was a bunch of random comics, so I never read anything in order. So I was reading part of Fantastic Four, and then the next comic I'd read would be part of the Infinity War. But I thought it was cool. And then once I grew up and could get my own comics, like afford my own, then I started buying one, two, three, four, or the graphic novel.
00:07:42
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And I tried to dabble in comics. I'm very particular because, like I said, I love the X-Men. But there's so many X-Men comics that I don't even know where to begin. And then so I picked a favorite. One of my favorites is Magneto. So I went to the House of X. I went and read them. House of M, sorry.
00:08:07
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That was a great series. But then I was like, man, I want more. I really do want to get into comics, but there's just so many. And it's a big yeah, it's tough. And it is a big investment. I mean, it's gotten a little bit easier with things like Marvel Unlimited and the DC program, too. So so it's a little bit easier to jump into stuff now in terms of financially speaking. But yeah, but finding stuff where you should start can definitely be a challenge. I remember
00:08:36
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Michael, I had kind of a similar situation to you where, in my case, it was my brother, actually, who he ran a store at the time when I started getting into X-Men and Batman the Animated Series. And so he would sell me these like unsold comics he had hanging around his store. And it was like, you know, it'd be like completely random. It'd be like X-Men 24 and then Batman like, you know,
00:09:00
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725 or whatever it was. It's just like reading them with no idea of what was going on, especially for anyone who's reading X-Men comics in the 90s knows just like how steep those books were in continuity. So if I pick up a comic and it had Gavin and Rogue on the cover and they'd be talking about how, wait, wait, Magneto's dead and everyone's sad about this girl named Ileana. And I don't know what's going and there's this thing called the legacy virus. I'm I'm completely lost here. I have no idea what's going on.
00:09:30
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And then you just return to an alpha fight and watch Puck bounce off a tree. Yeah. We love Puck. Yeah. I mean, I stuck with it, though. And but back then, you know, we didn't have the Internet either. So we couldn't like look stuff up on Wikipedia to find out what was going on in a comic book. You couldn't ask people on Reddit. If you were lucky, you would have a comic book store and you could ask them. But even that was, you know, kind of a 50 50 shot in the dark.
00:09:58
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True. Back in the day, I would go to marvel.com, like in my little closet room that I had. And I would just like marvel.com had the character list. And on that character list, I had all that information, their superpowers, and then like their abilities, and then they would rank them on a scale from one to 100.
00:10:19
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And then I would sit there for hours. It was kind of like the Wikipedia of Marvel. And you could just go back. They would mention their parents or their partners or whatever. And I would just sit on there for hours just reading about each individual character. Yeah, you remember those Marvel cards? They kind of did that too. Yes. I go to the back and it shows the information and power, agility.
00:10:45
Speaker
Again, I got those from my brother, and he would give me this complete set of the 92 Marvel trading cards. And I'd just sit there for hours reading the back post cards and diving into all these characters. I'm like, I don't know who the Guardians of the Galaxy are,
Podcasting Journey and Challenges
00:10:59
Speaker
but they look pretty cool. And there's this guy who looks kind of like Captain America, but he's not. And just going back and forth between all the different teams and all of that stuff. Good times back then. Yeah. Although I remember when the Marvel
00:11:14
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Yeah, but I remember when I first got online, the Marvel site was actually very bare bones back then in the mid late 90s. So you'd actually gotten more information from the fan sites back then. Yeah, that's so weird.
00:11:28
Speaker
I had this Marvel Encyclopedia. I still have them. They update them so often. But every page, it's an alphabetical order. And everybody gets a little tiny piece unless you get your Spider-Man. Then you get four pages to yourself. And I love flipping through that thing. That thing was cool. I remember it being on your coffee table. Yeah. What was that, the official handbook of the Marvel Universe?
00:11:54
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Yeah, I was an official encyclopedia. Oh, OK, OK. Yeah, and it was just show like powers, aliases, enemy and a little bio. But I love that thing. So about your your show, how long have you guys been doing that so far? We are like 30 episodes in and we've been doing it since. I want to say like April.
00:12:24
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Yeah, I can't, I honestly cannot remember when we began, but at times it's kind of gotten slow with it. I feel, you know, like, well, 30 episodes isn't very much, but we do it like every week. So yeah, we, we try to get everywhere every weekend. And, uh, then we start like at first we weren't doing guests because we didn't know what we wanted to do, how we wanted to do it. But we just thought if we don't do it, we're never going to do it. So let's just start. Yeah.
00:12:53
Speaker
So but we were we're working out the wrinkles and now we're we're hitting we started hitting other stuff and starting getting guests on when we started tick tock and It's getting fun. But the hard part, you know, it's like you said is the video it's almost not worth doing the videos Yeah,
Roy's Retro Gaming Passion
00:13:13
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that that's kind of how I felt just because it was it was so much work just doing the audio and then having to do video as well and just for like five views or something compared to the
00:13:22
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the audio show. I'm just like, not worth it. Just focus on the audio instead. For sure. And then you gotta worry about the thumbnails for the for YouTube or wherever you're putting it in. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead.
00:13:36
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So another thing we like to talk about with guests before we jump into the main topic is what kind of stuff are you interested in lately? What are you? It could be movies, TVs, TV shows, video games, whatever you're kind of interested in. It doesn't even have to be superhero related at all. But Roy, let's start with you.
00:13:55
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All right. Well, like I said, I'm excited for X-Men 97 because that honestly, I'm pretty sure that's what got me into Marvel and X-Men was the animated series. Cause I remember my cousin, I came, I was watching Power Rangers on the couch.
00:14:13
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And my cousin came in, he's an older guy, older than me. And so I looked up to him and he was like, what are you watching? And I was just like, Power Rangers, like, duh, you know, like, and he's like, he picks up the controller and changes it to WB. And it was X-Men. And it just so happened to be playing at the same time. And I remember just like, okay. And he's like, Power Rangers is gay.
00:14:37
Speaker
I was like, okay. But then I ended up falling in love with X-Men because I was like, whoa, this is actually really cool. So I watched that whole thing, bought the DVDs, had the Blu-rays, bought the VHSs. I have a few of them here actually. They're pretty cool. Wow. That's really old school there. Yeah, dude. I have
00:15:00
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almost all the ones that I used to have as a kid, because you can see on my background, I'm kind of just collecting my childhood back now that I can.
Nostalgia for Retro Games and Emulation Challenges
00:15:11
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Yeah. Um, and that's another thing I guess I've been into is retro video games. I just been really into that. He's actually pretty good at it. Like he's, he has a tick tock too. He could plug, but he just goes in and grabbed, he gets killer deals on offer up Facebook.
00:15:30
Speaker
and just either resells or takes the good parts of the bundle for the collection and then sells the bulk that he already has. Yeah, it's been pretty lucrative and also not really because I have to buy a bunch of stuff. Right, yeah. Yeah, you put all the way, the money that you earn, flipping and reselling. Yeah, I can show you my game collection here, but it's off camera. Yeah, that's what I've been really into lately.
00:16:01
Speaker
That's cool. Yeah, I've got a recall box, so I do retrograping mostly through emulation these days.
00:16:08
Speaker
I had to when my when my parents downsized I realized I'm like I can't bring all these like retro game systems back to Japan with me so so it was just kind of like I had to sell them all off and funny thing is the the older ones like the Super Nintendo the the Genesis the NES all of those sold for much higher than like my my PlayStation 2 or my Xbox and
00:16:33
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I always think of it when I'm when I'm buying. It's always an investment. I think because these old games are just not going to be around forever. Right now. Yeah. So that's why I was thinking about like acquiring it and then just having it and like, OK, time to sell it. Yeah, that's one of the that's one of the things that disappoints me because I was thinking about some of those like I can get the the older stuff on my on my recall box. But some of the stuff from like the the PS2 or the original Xbox era
00:17:01
Speaker
Those the recall box isn't powerful enough to handle that emulation yet. So it's like some of those games like, you know, the Xbox Punisher game or the the original or the Ultimate Spider-Man game or the Incredible Hulk game that was on Xbox. All those. I've been like jonesing to play those again, but I just don't have the hardware to do it.
00:17:23
Speaker
Yeah, and those all three of those games that you just named off are fairly expensive now. Like, yeah, I sure alone is 50 to 70 bucks. I was looking online just out of curiosity, like how much would it cost me to buy an Xbox? How much would it cost me to buy the games? The games were far and away more expensive than the Xbox itself was. Yeah, sure.
00:17:41
Speaker
That's I never really got into Xbox much. I played Halo 2 probably on Xbox, and that's about it. And so that's just one of the things that don't collect. And plus, I find it really hard to sell Xbox games. Yeah, compared to especially here in in Japan, Xbox is like, you know, a complete non-entity. Like you'll find like, you know, the Nintendo wall, it's like, you know, several shelves or like the PlayStation wall, several shelves. And then if you're lucky, you'll have like one tiny corner of Xbox stuff.
00:18:11
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. You say Japan, that scared me on the email. I was like, Japan? Because I had to convert the time and I was like, I'm
Michael's Manga Interests
00:18:23
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different. Well, yeah, because it's a previous day, you know, and then I was like, wait, did I schedule in Japanese time?
00:18:33
Speaker
Well, thanks for Nani, Nani. Thanks for, yeah, the flexibility there because I didn't know you were in Japan. Yeah, no, no problem. Like that's why I set up that that Calendly for that was just because, yeah, I mean, having to do it, I used to do conversions by myself and like I would always get it wrong or daylight savings would come along or something like that. And it would just completely throw everything off because we don't have that over here. It's ridiculous. Yeah.
00:19:02
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Michael. Michael, how about you? What are you interested in these days? Lately, I've been drawing a lot on my on my iPad. And I'm getting back in like I've been reading tons of manga like I'm
00:19:18
Speaker
so caught up in all my manga, I'm kind of upset. And now I'm just finding random ones to read. But they all seem to be cool, the ones I'm reading. Because before I go to bed, reading kind of makes me tired. So I'll just read chapters here, chapters there, pass out.
00:19:37
Speaker
Read chapters to your chest every night now and you know caught up on everything And that's a kind of a pain too because I want to enjoy the anime But then I I watch anime and then i'm like well what happens? Yeah, I just can't wait because I want to know what happens So I go read it and then sometimes that man the manga is not done and i'm like what the hell like now I gotta wait in this dude
00:20:03
Speaker
Yeah, I remember back when Dragon Ball was on the air, Dragon Ball Z when I was in middle school and high school. And one of the reasons they had so many filler episodes back then was because they were going faster than the manga was, so they had to wait to catch up. Oh, God, yeah.
00:20:18
Speaker
Yeah, those days, those Dragon Ball days are the Naruto days. My friends, my friend, you know, the AMVs would like Breaking Benjamin and it's just like a fight. We would watch those like, we didn't even like Breaking Benjamin, but it's so sick watching the AMVs. And we would just ruin his parents' computer with Frostwire and LimeWire downloading Naruto episodes. Because we had to see it like, and that was like the beginning of Naruto when
00:20:47
Speaker
No one really knew what Druida was, and there's only no English, no nothing. Just like the fan subs and that kind of stuff. Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much what I meant to you. I'm turning into a little shopaholic with clothes, which is terrible.
Balancing Gaming with Family Life
00:21:05
Speaker
Hey, Van, you look good the other day. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, well, Black Friday's coming up, too.
00:21:11
Speaker
Oh, I know. But we're from Portland, Oregon, and they have the Adidas headquarters here, the Nike's headquarters, the Columbia headquarters, and they got passes all of them. So I'm like trying to not spend so much money, but damn. OK, cool. For my part, the only thing I've like, I've been so busy with recording, I've been like recording several of these episodes back to back. I recorded one like two days ago, so.
00:21:42
Speaker
I don't have a whole lot that's new, but just this morning I started replaying Final Fantasy VII Remake. Just kind of got the urge to jump back into it. And it was just such a fun game, the way that it completely played with the expectations towards the end there. And I don't have a PS5 yet, but after seeing the trailer for Rebirth, I told my wife, I'm like, you got to get it. Next year, I got to get a PS5.
00:22:11
Speaker
We got Spider-Man 2. You got the Wolverine game coming out. Rebirth. All these games that I just want to play. And I'm just like, we have to get a PS5 eventually. Too many games. Enough time. PS5 Slim just released, too. Yeah, that's the problem. Like the time is because, like I said, I got I got two kids who are both under the age of three. So it's even like the other day I broke out the VR for like the first time in probably since before my son was born. He's he's a year and a half now. So.
00:22:41
Speaker
And, um, just like trying to play VR with my kids around is tough because they always want to, they always want to, they always come, they always, they're like, what is that thing? And they always try to come up and see me or like get in the way or pulling on the cords or anything like that.
00:22:57
Speaker
That's rough. VR is a lot of fun, but it takes up, you really have to dedicate to yourself, to that space that you're in. He's never beat or really played a Final Fantasy. I was like, you gotta play one of them. I recommend seven or nine, because nine's my all-time favorite.
00:23:21
Speaker
Yeah, they're good games, the music, I guess the nostalgia for me, but he's not gonna have it. But even Crystal Chronicles, I played Crystal Chronicles, Tactics, they were fun. Yeah, I mean, Seven is still the gold standard for me. Seven's a lot of, also, you know, it was a game that, it's probably, it's very expensive now, but Xenogears, that was a, because there's a whole rights issue with that. Like, that was a really fun game.
00:23:48
Speaker
It was available on the PS3 store. I'm not sure if it's still available on the PS4 store. You know, that's they have like the light sword that changes. I don't think it's like it's like it's like an RPG with like giant robots type of thing. And it's got these it's really it's actually really like in-depth story about like, you know, dealing with religion and like the nature of existence. It's a really like really deep story.
00:24:19
Speaker
Hmm. Well, that's something that I never, cause like Michael mentioned that I've never played Final Fantasy. Okay. So I played Final Fantasy nine and I played it on my PlayStation when I was in like middle school.
00:24:33
Speaker
And I didn't have a memory card, but I thought I was clever. And I would just play the whole game through. And then when I got to that change disc section, I would just, you know, open it up, change the disc, put it in and continue. And that's not how it goes at all. So I was, I gave up right then and there and I never played another Final Fantasy. Cause I was like, did I beat that first disc? And I was like, well, I guess I'm not going to do that ever again. So.
00:25:02
Speaker
I mean, those those memory cards, man. Those are the bane of my existence. I remember those back then. And the change disk games are weird, too. Like I had Parasite Eve and it was a change disk game. And I just I was so confused. I was like, what? I'm used to playing Monster Rancher, Digimon. And then I started playing that and I was like, yeah, I don't know what's going on.
00:25:28
Speaker
Okay, now today we are talking about a Korean superhero movie called Psychokinesis that you guys want to talk about. I'm probably gonna mispronounce the real title of this, but it's Yeon-Yak. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly. It was the original title.
Exploring 'Psychokinesis' Film
00:25:48
Speaker
But what is your history with it? What kind of made you guys want to talk about this movie?
00:25:54
Speaker
it. Okay, so there was two choices. I forgot what the other choice was. It was, I don't know if you remember, right? Because I remember telling you. But this one, me and Roy haven't seen it either. So I was like, it wasn't covered on your podcast yet. Me and him haven't seen it. Let's do it. So that's, we have no history of it.
00:26:16
Speaker
at all. We've been on like a Korean movie, a kick lately too. So I was actually stoked when I saw, you know, the cast and I was like, Oh, I know where this is going. This is Korean movie. This is gonna be good. I remember when I was in university, there was a period where I started to get into some Korean movies, like here and there, but didn't really take hold as much as Japanese movies did for me, although there were some definite good ones back then that were coming out. And
00:26:46
Speaker
And Korean pop culture is becoming so prevalent now, like all over the world, not only in Japan, it's huge. All the streaming services have a whole slew of Korean dramas. You go to the video store, there's entire sections devoted just to Korean dramas there. So they become massive. Yeah, they become massively popular here.
00:27:09
Speaker
Yeah, like K-dramas are just K-pop, K-dramas. I started getting sucked because my girlfriend watches K-dramas and she was watching one of those had to do with the superheroes or superhero, I guess. Well, he would write a comic book and whatever happened in his comic book would happen in his real life. So he had to change time with his comic book. And I was like, this is crazy.
00:27:32
Speaker
and sucked in and we have a friend that comes to the US sometimes for work and he's from Korea. And so we're trying to plan a trip to go visit him but yes.
00:27:46
Speaker
Yeah, kid. If you go to Korea, though, don't I will say don't go in the winter because it is brutally cold there in the winter. That's something I found out the hard way. I don't. That's my nightmare cold. Yeah, that's my weakness. If I was a superhero, I'm pretty sure my weakness would be the cold.
00:28:03
Speaker
Oh, same here. Absolutely. Anything under 40 years. And my nipples just stay hard. And I'm originally from the Chicagoland area. So like every year, my mom asked me about coming home for Christmas. I'm just like, no, no, no way. We went. Yeah, we went like two years ago because my sister got married around Christmas. So I'm like, all right, that's this is the only time I'm going to go in December. You're lucky I'm showing up. Yeah.
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'd never heard of this movie before, but it is the same director of Train to Busan, Yeon Sang Ho. I haven't seen Train to Busan, but everybody I know has talked about it, just raves about how good it is. I was about to rave on it right now. I think it's the best zombie movie ever. That's what a lot of people have said, yeah. From beginning to end, it's just insane. And not insane isn't just like,
00:29:03
Speaker
Go, go, go. Like, the story is also good. But it does go from beginning to end. See, I'm a big horror movie buff, too. Like, I love 80s horror. So I'll say it's really good, but not the best zombie movie ever. Okay. Just out of curiosity, what would you say is the best? Oh, my favorite, personally, is Return of the Living Dead. Okay. Yeah, I think that's the second best. My favorite is Dead Alive.
00:29:31
Speaker
Okay, that one's awesome. Very good. Very good. I never really thought about what my favorite zombie movie would probably be. I mean, I really liked the Dawn of the Dead remake though. It was really and yeah, I liked the Dawn of the Dead. I liked that remake. I love the original one too, but both those are really solid. And you know, I watched 28 Days Later, I think it
00:29:53
Speaker
ended up being a little bit overrated for me when I saw that. I was talking about it. But it was just it was just, you know, talked up way too much, I think for me. I think theaters and being so scared because that was one of the first movies I watched where zombies could run. I was like, I gotta get out of here. Run, they run fast, like rent. So good. They sprint. Yeah, full speed.
00:30:21
Speaker
And one of the things I've seen, and I've only watched some recent Korean stuff, but like Parasite or Squid Game, and one of the things that struck me about those movies, and the TV show, and also this movie too, is just the class warfare aspects, and just how predominant that seems to be becoming in Korea, at least the Korean stuff I've seen.
00:30:44
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you see how you say that it does because I mean, in this movie, psycho kinesis, bullet train, parasite, all of them have to do with, yeah, the classic. So what were some things that that stood out to you when you guys were watching this movie, some things that you think that you want to focus on? I'll say,
00:31:15
Speaker
I noticed these stories always have a broken father with like the mother's not present or she is present.
00:31:25
Speaker
But you don't really, like, you just get the idea that she is taking full responsibility of their kid or like the household or whatever it is. Like, and the father is always like a drunk or he's just like he sucks and doesn't want. And then so then it's always the same outline. I felt like I've seen that trend lately. And and that that's one thing that I've noticed in that movie is because he's like
00:31:55
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He's a deadbeat who's very selfish. That's what I've noticed. And then his mom, spoilers, his mom, or not his mom, but his ex-wife dies. And the daughter's left alone. And I think she would rather be alone than deal with her father because she knows who he is and how he is. But he wants to put on his big boy pants and take responsibility for once.
00:32:22
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So that's what I noticed. Well, so what I mean is every superhero has to have a dead parent. And at the beginning, one of the parents died. So I was like, hey, it's going to be good. That is as sad as it is. But that is a recurring trend, like death of the parents and almost every single superhero story. We should be superheroes. For real. Those are my powers.
Themes of Family and Cultural Dynamics in Korean Films
00:32:49
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I know. What the heck?
00:32:51
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Um, but I, I get what you're saying about the, the, the father issue too. And that's something I noticed too, like also in, it reminded me of squid game. Cause there's that whole, um, aspect of it with, uh, with the main character in that. Um, and now I'm not, I'm no expert on Korean culture. I don't know much about Korean culture, especially compared to like.
00:33:11
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Japanese culture. But I do know that there's some crossover. And in Japanese culture, there's this big shame component to the culture. So if you fail to provide for your family in some way, there are actually secret moving agencies that will help people leave behind their lives and move to a different part of the country to start over.
00:33:36
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Um, there's a really good podcast about it called evaporated and it was all about like these different stories about these people who just kind of like left their lives behind because they got swallowed up in, in debt. They couldn't, um, they, they lost their jobs, all that kind of stuff. And, and again, I'm not sure how much that is also a factor in Korean culture, but it definitely seems like it from what I've seen in, in this movie or also in, in squid game.
Superhero Narratives and Community Impact
00:34:01
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Yeah. Actually, I'm going to write that down because that sounds like a very good podcast. If it is, it was very good evaporated. It was like evaporated gone with the gods. I think it was what was the full title. Jeez, there's descriptions for everything now. But I think to what I thought about when I was watching this is it did make me think of
00:34:26
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everything everywhere all at once a little bit because what I think that movie did so well beyond just all the the multiversal stuff and all that kind of thing but the fact that it had this you know it used like this superhero narrative to tell this very personal story about a mother and daughter and we get something similar here with um telling this story about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter yeah so that kind of took me by surprise too because I thought the the title and the cover of the
00:34:56
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the movie and the description kind of is like a superhero movie. It's going to be about a guy that's a superhero, but he was, he's not quite a superhero. It seems he's just kind of like trying to become a better person, a hero for his daughter, I guess. But yeah, it was a lot more personal than I thought it was going to be.
00:35:20
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Yeah, I felt like it focused more on his father-daughter relationship because I was expecting a full-on superhero movie.
00:35:31
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where he's like learning to use his powers and like, gets a enemy, you know, an arch nemesis of some sort. And then like, maybe even gets a suit or something, you know, the basic steps of like becoming a superhero. But it almost had like none of that. And it's basically about his connection with his daughter and then the
00:35:56
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the city, taking over people's land. It's like a dead collector. They're trying to evict all these people to build their own stuff there. And in the end, you find out it doesn't even matter. The eviction doesn't even matter. And it's like a whole mess for nothing. Yeah, I just wanted to do it because I could.
00:36:19
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or they had the promise of having a successful. What was it? What was it they were building there? I forget. It was like it was like a shopping plaza or something for for dedicated tour. It was geared to towards Chinese tourists, I believe, is what they said. Oh, yeah. So and then it didn't even matter because they didn't have the full plan in effect. They just were like, whoops. Yeah, it was very it turned out not to be profitable at all.
00:36:48
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It's funny because it does make me think about that whole idea with like this consumer capitalism where it's just almost like vampiric in a way where it just it keeps draining and draining all the resources from the community. And then it gets to the point where if you don't have the community there, if the community can't afford to shop at these places, the whole thing is going to fall apart in the end. Yeah, their eyes are bigger than their brain, I guess, or whatever the saying is.
00:37:15
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My brain's not very big. My head's big. My brain. Yeah. Well, also, too, I wonder how much of it is just that is just is supposed to exist on paper in terms of like the plan and like the real plan is actually to, you know, get money out of the community through through like these contracts and stuff and then just take the run because
00:37:36
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Sorry to interrupt, but yeah, they kept going and they kept going and like give us money, like not protection money, more like give us money so you could squat here a little longer or whatever, you know, because they were bullying them, but they were still trying to take money from them. So maybe that's, it was somewhat profitable for them for a little bit until they didn't move out. Yeah.
00:38:02
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Yeah, and I thought some of the scenes in this were really good too, especially that opening scene when Rumi's gets attacked by the thugs that are working for the construction company, like a harrowing scene. I was genuinely terrified for her in that scene. It felt like a zombie attack. Yeah, absolutely. 100%. Yeah, yeah. I could definitely see why so many people like Terrain de Busan, if that's the way he directs his zombie movies.
00:38:32
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Oh man, you got to watch it because it's better than that, but. Yeah, she's like sleeping in the dark here in her kitchen because she owns a restaurant that's, you know, going under, but she's like sleeping in it and it's all boarded up. And, uh, yeah, they just started attacking her at night. And then what her mom, she calls her moms in the police or they're here, they're here. And her mom shows up in that van and I was like, I'm just running over. And then she gets in the van and just tries to run them over. I was like, yeah.
00:39:02
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And then she crashes. And she misses the whole crowd. Yeah, that was amazing. And then they break her neck. And the funniest thing is they always say, gosh, oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. And then when they just killed this poor girl's mom, and he's, oh, gosh, fuck, gosh, gosh, fuck. Wait, did you watch it with the subtitles or with the subtitles? Yeah. There was no other one.
00:39:31
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Yeah, and that's what I kept reading. They're like, gosh, fuck, she's dead. Gosh. Did that sound that her head made when she hit the curb? That was, yeah.
00:39:45
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It was it was pretty it got me. It reminded me of like the first time I saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and he hits him in the face with the meek lever and you hear that thud. And it's just super accurate. And it made me go like, oh, you know, that was that was a good noise. Yeah. But yeah, she ended up dying. Yeah. Sorry. No, so I was going to say one of the things that I thought was kind of weird about it was just the way I think I'm pronouncing that name right.
00:40:15
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Um, gets his powers in the first place, which is, um, cause this is the thing that, this is the thing that kept bugging me throughout the whole
Humor and Character Dynamics in 'Psychokinesis'
00:40:22
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movie. I'm like, okay, so if this meteorite has infected this water supply, how come he's the only one who gets powers? He's the only one that drank the little blue hue.
00:40:33
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Afterwards, he's like, the water's dirty. The water's dirty. They just kept going to the water. No, they kept going. Yeah, that next lady, she went in and she drank it too. So yeah, that's what I was wondering if there was going to be... When you mentioned the fact that there is no super villain in the traditional sense, that made me wonder, is there going to be someone else who they recruit that also drank the water?
00:40:57
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but just like so many super powered bugs and fish now, because it just drained. Well, I guess he got the most of it though, because or all of it actually, because yeah, he's the only soup in that universe. And that we know of.
00:41:15
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Also, I think that scene was to point out that he is not taken serious at all. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. No one's going to listen to this guy. Right. That's what I felt too. He comes off as such a goofball and just such a dumbass in that introduction, which kind of
00:41:39
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kind of I was kind of glad they did exit it the way they kind of play with your expectations about what kind of movie it's going to be because at that you know when we first see him and my whole impression was that okay this is probably going to be a little bit more comedic than serious but end up being having a pretty even tone throughout
00:41:59
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I agree. It was pretty funny. He's a funny character himself. He made me laugh, like his facial, his acting. So when he's like, and his little fingers get all contorted. When he talks to that, uh,
00:42:18
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the cleaning lady and she's like, where'd you get all these coffees? He's like, oh, you know, she's like, are you still these from the bank? He's like, yeah, they don't know. And then five seconds later, he goes out and she's taking them from the bank, but she gets caught and she calls it. She calls his name and he just like ducks his head and like runs through the alley like you.
00:42:36
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Yeah, he's like, not my chair, not my problem. I love that he just justifies it too. He's like, you dumb lady. Of course, they're going to notice if you take that many at once. He's like, not tactical at all. There's very much this, this sense of being out for yourself that he has, especially at the beginning there.
00:42:58
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Yeah, he's definitely selfish. Yeah, when he finds out Powers and his daughter, she just wants him pretty much, but he's just like, check out my Powers. I can make a lot of money being a magician. And that's all he's thinking about is money, money, money, me, me, me. And he doesn't care. We can get your restaurant back, get your life back together. He's just like, don't worry. I could turn this tie into a snake.
00:43:26
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Well, I think that goes back to what Perry was saying. It's the culture aspect of it because he's probably trying to take the blood of what's happening to her life, which is new ability that he has. And now he has the ability to provide for both of them.
00:43:48
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And so and she's not getting that because she's never had that from him before. So yeah, I mean, just lost. She understandably doesn't trust him. And, you know, also the whole he has this attitude that what I think is definitely true of a certain generation of, you know, it's funny, my wife was watching kind of like a making of documentary about the movie Elementals, like a Pixar movie, I think. Yeah. And the director is is Korean American. And he was talking about how his
00:44:18
Speaker
And I was just kind of like tuning in and out as I was you know reading my comics But he was talking about how that he was doing when he was a kid growing up For his parents there was this whole idea of you know you have to you know work as a grind It's not something you enjoy doing it's something that you do for money like you can't make money as an artist or anything like that and I think there's there's a I see a similar kind of cultural idea cultural rift between
00:44:46
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him and his daughter in this movie where, you know, he thinks like, Oh, well, if I just had the money, that's gonna solve all your problems. And she's like, No, the problem is not the money. The problem is, you know, these guys who are, you know, harassing us and you know, trying to steal away what's ours and all that kind of stuff. And she's also has a community when he's worried about just her.
00:45:06
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Right, exactly. Yeah, she's she's very much she feels like she's part of that community. She feels the need to to stand up for that community to work with it. And he's, you know, again, just all in it for himself, where he's like, you know, he's like, no, forget the community, forget all of them. And yeah, and he's very suspicious of anyone who seems to have altruistic motives, like with with the lawyer, right? His whole idea is like, he's like, oh, you're just you're just doing this because you want to get in bed with my daughter.
00:45:31
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Hey, he wasn't wrong, though. He wasn't entirely wrong. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. He knew. He's a guy. He knows what's up. He's like, you like my daughter. Dude, I did like that lawyer, though. I thought he was a good lawyer. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Because when he made that barrier, he pulled the car forward and all those grunts into the equipment and stuff. He's like, ah. And he makes a barrier, right? And the lawyer goes, ah.
00:45:57
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And like, he screams and tries to do the powers too. Cause like, maybe if I just green, I can do it too. And it didn't work. He's like, yeah, whatever. Worth it. Worth the shot. I think my favorite character was the, uh, the goon, the bad guy that I forget his name. Um, but he's the leader of the pack of the, of the crowd that comes in and breaks all the windows and stuff by that, by that lady.
00:46:24
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Yeah, he was hilarious. I thought he was funny because he would crack me up with like his. He's not so intimidating, but he tries really hard to be. And it just reminded me, like, I don't know, it reminded me of Kung Fu Hustle. And they're pretending to be asking. Yeah, there's there's I got that kind of sense, too.
00:46:47
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But I forgot what I was going to say. But yeah, he oh, when he goes into the mom's funeral, they just throw this. It's also messed up. They just showed up to the funeral after killing her. But then they start throwing stuff on the ground and I'm like, oh, my God. Like, well, it just shows like their their arrogance and how they feel like they can get away with anything because they've got they've got money and they've got strength. So it's like this whole idea where he just comes in, waltzing and he's just like,
00:47:15
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He's like, here's money for the fact that we killed, we murdered your mother. And her righteous indignation was well deserved, I thought.
00:47:25
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Yeah, it was. I thought that going back to that scene, there was a scene that I just found so adorable, because they're like, they come to the funeral, and then everyone's tell them to leave. And she sees them from afar. Rumi is their name, right? Yeah. And she just comes in like the guy's trying to get them. The lawyer guy is trying to get them to get the heck out of there. But he's not using any like, really force. And she just comes in and like puts her head down and just like starts.
00:47:55
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Ramming them and I was like, they're not gonna hit her, you know, so she just kind of like puts her way puts her Self in harm, but I just thought that's so awesome Yeah, just yeah head butts it's funny too, but it also just shows like just like how Little how few options that this community has to fight back against these guys Like the only thing she can really do is just you know, you know infinitely pet
00:48:22
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hit her head against his chest, and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. And then you find out that they're not even that powerful. There's someone beyond them, which that girl, you find that real villain or whatever. She's kind of scary, because she's at the dinner, and she's like, oh, go ahead. You don't have to eat with me here. And then she brings in goons to jump him, because he's not doing his job in time.
00:48:50
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And she starts screaming. No, stop. No. And she's just looking out the window like screaming these things just so she could record it to act like nothing. She had her she had a reason to. Yeah. Yeah. I thought she was that actress. I really liked her. Jung Yumi is her is her name. She's great. She was great. She was she was a lot of fun in that role. I think she was probably of all the the villains. I think she was probably my favorite.
00:49:18
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Yeah, because she gave off that, like, villain vibe when the other guys kind of like, that's just, they are, they gave off more, yeah, gruntish, but she gave off, like, yeah, villain, because she was kind of sick with, you know, sick with it. Yeah, kind of. And then she goes to the jail cell and tells her dad about, like,
00:49:41
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the ultimatums and stuff, and here's your options. You're going to do what I say. And it's like, oh, all right, we'll see what happens. That's what I was excited like, what's the dad going to do? This is where we see if he's going to use his powers or not, or where his mind stays. Yeah. She was also in, what is it, Train to Busan as well. Oh.
00:50:06
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I don't know. Yeah, no, she was. I just looked her up. But yeah, she was in Train to Busan as well. She's a pretty big name in South Korea, it seems. Oh, that just reminded me of who they thought was in charge of...
00:50:27
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Sorry, when he makes an impact the first time he comes to defend the community and he like throws them everywhere and they record it and they're he's trying to explain what is going on to the cop at the office. He's like, who started it? Who assaulted who? And he's like trying to convince the cop that he is these powers
00:50:50
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to throw everybody. And he's like, on camera, it looks silly because it just looks like he's waving his arms. Yeah. And he's like, this is hard to understand and hard to explain. And so to get some context back to that. So they there's a fight between the goons in the community and they take it's it's recorded. It's kind of the first time you get to see the dad use his powers to like defend like
00:51:17
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in pap, you know, uses powers to attack. And they take that video to the police to show the police. So you have these two groups showing the police, this one police officer at the computer, the video, the fine, they're both giving commentary on it. Like, who's who hit who first? And since this guy can make people flow, it looks or like float and fly. It looks like, you know, Power Rangers when they sparks fly off. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:49
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I thought that was clever. The way they express this superpower on camera. There wasn't that much special effects. It was more like
00:52:04
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camera pan, you know, cut, and then start right then. And it reminded me of Power Rangers actually a lot when he would move his arm or the sword, and then the people would fly. It reminded me a lot of that. And I thought there was a lot of clever camera tricks that they use to express telekinesis. I thought so too. Yeah, I thought the the practical effects and the way they they express his powers was was very well done.
00:52:33
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Um, you know, it's trying to just trying to keep it very grounded in this world and not trying to go, uh, to over the top with, you know, computer effects or anything like that. Uh, which, you know, those, those have their place, obviously. I mean, you can do a lot of the stuff we see in a lot of superhero films without them, but for something like this, it makes sense to go more practical. Yeah. And it was, it was nice on the eyes. It wasn't bad. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:58
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Yeah, there's only a few CGI stuff. And I mean, it wasn't the greatest, but also, yeah, was needed, I guess. But right. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't overwhelm you like, like the Flush. Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah, the babies and the microwave and all that. Yeah.
00:53:23
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I don't think Michael's seen the new flash. Oh, which is crazy. Flashpoint Paradox is one of my favorite DC movies, and it's supposed to be kind of Flashpoint Paradox. I mean, it's the basic the same basic story. But, you know, we're about him going back in time. But yeah, it's just yeah, Michael Keaton is great. Michael Keaton is awesome in it. That's about and Sasha Kale is pretty good to his supergirl. But that's about it. Those are the only things worth watching it for. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:53:52
Speaker
Nicolas Cage cameo is kind of funny. Yeah, that he doesn't know about that either. But yeah, they basically threw Nicolas Cage in it with all CGI. And he's Superman. Really from the man lives there. Yeah. But he just looks like it's almost so much CGI, you don't realize this Nicolas Cage until you're like, Oh,
00:54:17
Speaker
Like I see what they did. OK. Yeah. Yeah. It was the other day we did we did an episode. We recorded an episode on Green Lantern and just some of the scenes and it looked like, you know, just like out of a piece to cut scene. Right. That kind of kind of bad level of CGI. Whereas whereas this one, when they do use CGI, it's not the best, but they they know their limitations. They only use it sparingly. Yes. Yeah, I feel like it's always so big. I need to go back and watch something like that because in my mind, I love I love Green Lantern when
Social Critiques in 'Psychokinesis'
00:54:45
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it came out. I thought it was pretty cool.
00:54:47
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Like even though CGI mask, but I know for a fact if I went back and watch it, it'd be terrible. So yeah, I kind of I had a similar. It was funny because I went into that episode and watching that movie. I'm like, I'm like, I'm going to I'm going to defend this movie. And after I watched it, I'm just like, yeah, I can't. I can't. There's some stuff in it that, you know, I thought Ryan Reynolds was great, but but and and Mark and Mark Strong was great, too. So some great casting in it. But the overall story just didn't really work.
00:55:18
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And his abilities like when I think Green Lantern, I think barriers and I think giant like cool structures. And I feel like there's none. It just reminded me so like a giant Hot Wheels track with the Hot Wheels car just over the top. I was like, I actually I actually like that. I actually like that. I thought it was a cool and creative way to do that.
00:55:45
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funny idea. I guess I'm more practical. So like, if I was Green Lantern, it would all just be like, you know, I don't know, my imagination is not that crazy, I guess. Well, I think that's the that's the funny thing, because usually Hal Jordan, the comics, he doesn't have the best imagination compared to like, Kyle or Jon Stewart, who are much more imaginative and have, you know, Kyle's being an artist. So he was always like, thinking up these really detailed types of constructs.
00:56:15
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Say I just saw Michael's forehead again. Oh, there's a reoccurring joke on our podcast because my forehead goes for a very long time. So I usually in the video, I wear my hand like this, like I'm a mystery character. Oh, my gosh. And you just it's your head. So I just had to look.
00:56:44
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Also, any also I thought that the showing the police in this too, and just like the fact that they're basically also tools for this, you know, these corrupt vultures, basically, I thought was also nice touch the fact that he's the one who's defending these people, but he's the one who ends up going to jail at the end. Yeah, I thought, I thought cool, because the cops were kind of in the middle at first, like, who, who first? And I was like, that's kind of cool. And then also, they weren't
00:57:13
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like arresting anybody for squatting, which I thought, oh, here, you know, in America, they would be arrested by now or like, you know, in summer and get the shit beat out of them in the process. Yeah. And then the police over there seemed pretty fair until the end when they showed up and she's freaking right here and right here and basically a tank. It was a giant crane.
00:57:41
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I'm not sure what the laws are for squatting in South Korea. That may have had something to do with it, but again, I have no clue. I know that in other countries, they're less strict about that stuff than they are in America.
00:57:55
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Yeah. If you can find some good loopholes, you can squat pretty good. In America? Yeah. In America, I've seen videos lately of landlords not able to evict the people that are renting out their place, or people in Airbnb's not able to evict people.
00:58:18
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even though they're renting it out to them and they stop paying them, but they technically cannot, I forget the loophole there, but it's like, you know, you're supposed to clean something every so often. If it's not clean, like they stay there and they're like, Oh, it's supposed to clean. You say it's cleaned every week and the cleaner didn't show up. That's a violation.
00:58:38
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and the contract. So I'm going to stay here to get my money's worth. And I'm not paying until you pay me back my damages. And so they just they don't want to pay them the damages because that's not right. So then they just lived there for months for free. That's not sure about I know differs from like state to state, city to city. But I know in Japan, they've got there are a lot of laws designed to to protect renters. So like you can't have like the kind of evictions they have in the US is like they
00:59:06
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So like that whole kind of thing, like during COVID when landlords were like people in mass like they can't do that here in Japan. Legally, they cannot do that. That's great. Actually, I've seen videos, those videos in Japan where they always had those like abandoned houses for like ten thousand dollars or. Yeah, because there's I just read an article about this one lady who she was living in a nursing home and she had kept her house because she was hoping her sons would move back.
00:59:33
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But you know, of course they've got jobs in like a big city so they don't want to move back and This and she started renting it out to this couple and the whole idea was just kind of like, you know You know you pay like $300 a year, which is like the taxes of it and that's it and then everything else, you know You could do whatever you want to the house. You can you can fix it up any repairs though or all on you all that kind of stuff That's pretty crazy. But usually those have usually I mean sometimes they're
01:00:02
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they're closer to big cities, but usually they're out like countryside. They are. Yeah. Yeah. They're, they're called Akia, which is like Japanese for like empty house. And, uh, because they, cause a lot of it is there's a, there's an inherited tax too. So like people don't want to claim them because then they have to pay the taxes and then they're up on the taxes for them and selling it as a pain in the ass. You have to pay to get it demolished. You got to pay for the, the, the garbage disposal and all that. So they, they figure it's just better to let someone live in it or buy it for cheap then.
01:00:29
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Well, yeah, those who do, but other other people like, you know, the family will just kind of like when the when the parent or grandparent who lived there died like the or gets moved to a nursing home, the family just kind of like pretends the house doesn't exist.
Protagonist's Journey and Powers Evolution
01:00:42
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It like doesn't doesn't answer any questions about it. That's why there. Yeah, there have been some efforts now that because they're I mean, honestly, they're a fire hazard because the they're all good, basically. Yeah. So they're trying to do stuff to to get people to
01:00:58
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to rent them out or to sell them very cheaply. So yeah, there's there are websites you can go on where you can look up, you know, how much they cost. And yeah, they're cheap. They're they're very cheap, like 10,000, like you were saying, sometimes less than that. I remember one time, this is like years back, but I remember when I was living in a small town out here, there was one that was going for like, I think, like $5,000 or something like that. The dreams move to Japan. Yeah, if you can work remotely,
01:01:27
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That's the thing. If you can work remotely and if you can get a visa, those are the big things. And if you're willing to be part of the community, because if you don't want to ingratiate yourself with the locals, then you'll probably have issues living in that one of those places. True.
01:01:42
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Uh, the main character's house when you see his room and like, Oh my goodness. I couldn't believe it. He's just had trash everywhere. He's smoking in his, in his little room and just like, just garbage everywhere. I thought that was a pretty cool scene. I kind of miss that where you like, you just sit on the, like, there's no couch. It's a mat usually. Like I grew up with a,
01:02:11
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some Asian friends and yeah, you just go they roll out this like, you know, it's like a fake straw map. You just sit on sick crisscross and just eat meat, watch TV. Yeah, there are a lot of like the the the older houses they'll have like they'll be much smaller in size. So like bedroom rooms are like multi purpose where it's like you'll during the day it's the living room and then at night you pull out the futons from the closet and then you sleep in there. So so there's I mean, we live in a
01:02:40
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in a bigger ish house so we've got beds and everything here but that's um but that there are there are a lot of places like that i know um a lot of my students university live in like these one room apartments and that's what they do just yeah i mean it's smart you use the spaces you got use it for as much things as you can yeah yeah absolutely uh that is the whole scene when he makes everything float in his
01:03:05
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in his living room, all the garbage. Yes. Well, yeah, again, the you know, the way that they handle his powers is very well done. It's very artfully executed the way they showcase all that stuff and how he's able to and just like the way they make it look all pretty seamless for the most part. Yeah. And also like how he starts like I love it. He has a stomach ache. Oh, and that kind of like, you know, and then then he kind of slowly does more and more and more with it.
01:03:36
Speaker
Yeah, to the to the end, like he levels up like crazy, where he is. So yeah, eventually, they come in with their, their, I was gonna say tractor, but it's a crane, or not even a crane. What is it?
01:03:56
Speaker
it's a crane. They have like a crane and then all the cops and they're like, okay, the lawyer's telling Rumi to give up. Like it's over with. And then he sees the news while he's in prison, the hero, and sees that they're invading this area. And so he just like takes that dude's cell phone and then like
01:04:19
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with his telekinetic powers, I thought that was neat. And then he like, just levels up in the prison cell or jail cell, I mean, and then explodes out basically. And then he unlocks like, new abilities, because before he could just pull thing towards him or make things levitate. But now he could like, create a barrier around him. And then like, one strong enough so that point where he could fly.
01:04:47
Speaker
And I was like, whoa. Dude, when he busts out of that jail cell and crushes that girl's car, because she just gave him the ultimatum of like, do what I say when I say. And he's going to go to a cell and think about what he's going to do. And then until he finds out they're getting attacked. And he's like, oh, huh. So he breaks out and then jumps out and then crushes her car.
01:05:09
Speaker
Oh yeah, and that's another thing I feel like he does is he unlocks durability. Or he must be making a force field around himself because he jumped like four stories and then landed and then made a crater and then crushed her car like Magneto would and then
01:05:29
Speaker
He just starts running and jumping and basically just bouncing off of these things, which is insane. Because if any other person probably would have just died. Imagine having those powers and you've failed four stories and just died with all those powers. Because you did not control it. No. I fear that that's something that would happen to me if I unlocked powers. Like some sort of something out of the boys.
01:05:57
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You get super stupid with your ability, so you go lift a car and you break your arm. Yeah, that would happen. But yeah, that scene when he's flying over the city, too, I just love the visual of that as well, like some great, just a great camera work in this movie all around.
Film Conclusion and Reconciliation
01:06:17
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Very Matrix Revolutions. That sort of reminds me of. Although a much, much better, much better movie, though.
01:06:26
Speaker
Yeah, you don't have relations. I'm not really like I like resurrections. I thought the new one was pretty good. But but yeah, revolutions and reloaded were was not really fond of. Oh, yeah. Wait, I'm on her mind. We could talk about that in some other podcast. Give me started on a tree. Yeah. Anyway, do you guys have anything else to say about psychokinesis? Anything that we didn't touch on that you wanted to mention?
01:06:57
Speaker
I guess. The fact that he goes to jail, so he goes to jail for four years and comes out and finds out that his daughter and the lawyer ended up getting married. Yeah. He was right all along. And I thought it was funny that after he basically saves his daughter from falling, rebuilds that connection, make sure everyone's safe and across a way that doesn't get arrested.
01:07:24
Speaker
Um, he takes the blunt of it all and he's like, okay, now you can arrest me. I did what I needed to do and then actually serves time. And I don't know. I just. The first time he was selfless in the whole movie. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I like that too. The fact that he, um, I mean, it's, it's both, you know, it shows just how corrupt this, uh, this society is and the fact that the guy who's actually protecting people is the one who gets arrested.
01:07:52
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But also it worked to show that he was very, he was finally taking responsibility for his actions. That was a good story. It was, it came all around, back around and connected just fine. And she got to reconnect with the parent. So she lost one, but gained one. It was nice.
01:08:16
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Yeah, I really liked it. And she also opened a new restaurant. Mm hmm. Oh, yeah, super power chicken. Yeah, chicken. That's pretty good. Yeah, I like I like that, too, that, you know, she'd been honoring him ever since he went to prison. And then at the end, when he comes out, he's you know, he's using the he's using his powers to bring drinks to the customers. Yeah. I thought that was funny. He had 12 drinks, so he's just like, ah, pouring all the drinks.
01:08:46
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I thought that was funny because he just showed up and she's like, help me out. I can't do all this by myself. So he just grabs some beers and lifts them up and he has no idea where they're going.
01:08:59
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I was just like, there's some funny moments in this movie that I thought like, um, I'm just gonna pick and choose. Like when the cops are trying to break into the door and they got that barrier up and there's like a smoke in the building that they throw in and everyone's yelling and everyone's hitting their shields with the sticks and rocks are being thrown. And then she just like pulls her phone out.
01:09:26
Speaker
And answers the phone. I'm like, what? You can't even hear your phone. I guarantee it. I thought that was funny. She has time to answer a phone call. Because she literally is pushing up against the wall, helping them close the door. And then she grabs her phone and leaves. It's like, what? All right. Michael, do you have anything else that you wanted to mention about it? No. Just that I liked it. It was a good movie.
01:09:55
Speaker
Yeah, it was a fun movie and it's it's on Netflix. At least it is here in Japan. Obviously, I think you guys watched in America, too. So I think it's a Netflix original. So you should be able to watch it on there without any problem. And I didn't even because this was one of those movies that just like this is one of the things I hate about Netflix is their their algorithm just, you know, hide stuff like this because I never, never saw
Podcast and Comic Promotions
01:10:19
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this pop up at all. When you guys mentioned it, I'd never heard of it. And I'm just like, I'm like, oh, well, let me see if it's at the
01:10:24
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at the video store and then I looked it up and then right up on Netflix, that was the first result. I'm like, oh, it's on. Okay. All right. Why didn't Netflix ever tell you about this? I watched a lot of stuff. I'm glad we picked it then because I was looking through the list of all the things you've done. I was amazed. He's done a lot. But to do something you've never even heard of is great.
01:10:46
Speaker
Well, yeah, we've done that a few times. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the things we like. I mean, you know, we do the the big name stuff like the MCU ones and the stuff. But it's also fun to look at these these like, you know, unknown superhero movies and, you know, kind of spice things up a little bit and give people a taste of something they may never have heard of before. Yeah, people will watch it because it is a good movie. I wouldn't say it's underrated because I've also never seen it. But I have seen the ratings and I feel like it's perfectly rated.
01:11:17
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Hmm. I was going to tell Michael if we couldn't figure out a movie. I didn't know if you guys have done anything, but I was going to mention Bruce Willis and Unbreakable. We actually got someone scheduled to do that. Oh, nice. That's coming up. Yeah. That's a good one. We've also got someone who's supposed to be coming on for split, although we had some scheduling issues, so we're trying to work that out, too. Wait, split's a newest one, right?
01:11:41
Speaker
No, no, no. Split was the second one. Glass was the newest one. Yeah. Glass. Oh, my God. Yeah. Glass was was a letdown. But split and unbreakable. Both very good. Classic and Shyamalan. Shyamalan. I'll never forgive him for what he did. I'll never forgive him for what he did to Avatar. Yes. And what he did to Avatar? My God. We have something to look forward to, though.
01:12:06
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, they got the new one coming out. So that looks I haven't seen the trailers yet. But but from what I've heard people talk about online, it seems like people are getting excited about it. It looks a lot better than. Well, I mean, it's hard to be worse, right? Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. All right, guys. So why don't you promote your podcast? Anything else you'd like to tell people where they can find you?
01:12:31
Speaker
Yeah, you could follow us on Bad Potatoes Pod on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. And we are on Spotify, iHeartRadio. We are on all things podcast pretty much besides Google Play right now. Yeah, so at the Bad Potatoes Pod. And we're really interactive on Instagram. We post a lot of polls and stuff. So if you guys want to come join us
01:12:59
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We do a lot of like voting like this, this better. I think it's a lot of fun. We're on YouTube, but we're working on a few kinks with the video player, like you said. But we plan to be more consistent on that end. But for the most part, we're on pretty much every podcast app.
01:13:20
Speaker
Okay, cool. And then I'm on Carpet Corp. If you guys are interested in anything geek related carpets, I also do take missions. Roy, you have Roy Wood and Retro Roach, right? Retro Roach. Yeah. Ro is not so much anymore, unfortunately, but Retro Roach is the new one that I'm just coming up with ideas, video games. And that's also on Instagram, too?
01:13:48
Speaker
Instagram, TikTok, yeah. Okay, okay. So we'll have links to all that stuff in the show notes, so you guys can make sure to check those out. As for us, superiorosinophiles.com is the website. We are SuperCinemapod on Instagram and BlueSky and threads. Technically, we're still on Twitter, but I try not to go there anymore because Elon Musk is a fascist, so. And then it's on X.
01:14:13
Speaker
Yeah. It's a real shame that there is a real shame that there's not real a real alternative to Twitter. I know. Yeah. I'm just like when all these alternatives popped up, I just joined every single one of them. I'm just hoping one of them is going to take a lead and become the one that everyone's going to go to now. Same hasn't happened yet. So we'll see how it's for a second. It seemed like it was going to be threads and then thread spell down and then blue sky came up and then now thread seems to be coming back up. So we'll see how things work out. Awesome.
01:14:43
Speaker
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01:15:11
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01:15:42
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01:16:14
Speaker
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